Today on the Hill

The Senate convenes at 10:00 a.m. ET and will will resume consideration of H.R. 1256, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. A vote on the passage H.R. 1256 is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.

The House meets at 10:00 a.m. for legislative business, including the continued wrangling over H.R. 2346, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009.

Noteworthy Senate HearingsSenate Judiciary (3 p.m.): Crime and Drugs Subcommittee holds a hearing on "Exploring the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009." Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.); Pat Nolan, vice president of the Prison Fellowship; William Bratton, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; Charles Ogletree, professor at Harvard Law School; Brian Walsh, senior legal research fellow at the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, will testify. 226 Dirksen.

Senate Armed Services (9:30 a.m.): Holds a hearing on the nominations of Gordon Heddell to be inspector general of the Defense Department; Michael Gilmore to be director of operational test and evaluation at the Defense Department; Zachary Lemnios to be director of defense research and engineering; Dennis McCarthy to be assistant secretary for reserve affairs; Jamie Morin to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for financial management and comptroller; and Daniel Ginsberg to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs. The nominees will testify. 106 Dirksen.

House Oversight and Government Reform (10 a.m.): Holds a hearing on "Bank of America and Merrill Lynch: How Did a Private Deal Turn into a Federal Bailout?" Kenneth Lewis, CEO and president of the Bank of America Corporation, has been invited to testify. 2154 Rayburn.

House Judiciary (2 p.m.): Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Subcommittee holds a markup of H.R.1843, the "John Hope Franklin Tulsa-Greenwood Race Riot Claims Accountability Act of 2009," to provide a mechanism for a determination on the merits of the claims brought by survivors and descendants of the victims of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Race Riot of 1921 but who were denied that determination. 2141 Rayburn.